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Iraq is failing on human rights.

In the two months since the Baghdad security plan was launched, approximately 3,000 people have been arrested in security sweeps. According to a new U.N. report, Iraqi authorities “failed to guarantee the basic rights” to these people, and “four million Iraqis were at risk because of lack of food.”

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